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by _qwfv 1886 days ago
In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence. It's not strictly the definition of the word, but most folks in the states will understand a lynching to imply race related murders.
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> In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence.

Please don’t assume everyone is a US citizen.

I'm not. In fact, I'm the opposite. That's literally why I wrote that comment. It was for the benefit of people who were not US citizens who may not understand that a US reader will likely interpret the phrase that way.